fan | (noun) a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces | - |
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(noun) an ardent follower and admirer | Synonyms: buff, devotee, lover |
(noun) an enthusiastic devotee of sports | Synonyms: rooter, sports fan |
fanaloka | (noun) civet of Madagascar | Synonyms: Fossa fossa |
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fanatic | (noun) a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause) | Synonyms: fiend |
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fanaticism | (noun) excessive intolerance of opposing views | Synonyms: fanatism, zealotry |
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fanatism | (noun) excessive intolerance of opposing views | Synonyms: fanaticism, zealotry |
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fanbase | (noun) All of the fans or devotees of something | - |
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fanboy | (noun) A male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, someone or something in popular entertainment media | - |
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fancam | (noun) footage of a celebrity taken by a fan | - |
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fancier | (noun) a person having a strong liking for something | Synonyms: enthusiast |
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fancy | (noun) imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination | - |
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(noun) something many people believe that is false | Synonyms: fantasy, illusion, phantasy |
(noun) a predisposition to like something | Synonyms: fondness, partiality |
fancywork | (noun) decorative needlework | Synonyms: embroidery |
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fandango | (noun) a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets | - |
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fandom | (noun) the fans of a sport or famous person | - |
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fanfare | (noun) a gaudy outward display | Synonyms: flash, ostentation |
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(noun) (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments | Synonyms: flourish, tucket |
fang | (noun) hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison | - |
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(noun) canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey | - |
(noun) an appendage of insects that is capable of injecting venom; usually evolved from the legs | - |
fangirl | (noun) A female fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, someone or something in popular entertainment media) | - |
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fanion | (noun) a small flag used by surveyors or soldiers to mark a position | - |
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fanjet | (noun) a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust | Synonyms: fan-jet, fanjet engine, turbofan, turbofan engine, turbojet, turbojet engine |
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(noun) an airplane propelled by a fanjet engine | Synonyms: fan-jet, turbofan, turbojet |
fanlight | (noun) a semicircular window over a door or window; usually has sash bars like the ribs of a fan | - |
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(noun) a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door | Synonyms: transom, transom window |
(noun) a window in a roof to admit daylight | Synonyms: skylight |
fanny | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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(noun) external female sex organs | Synonyms: female genital organ, female genitalia, female genitals |
fansign | (noun) a sign made by a fan, usually with the target's name on it | - |
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fantail | (noun) an overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck extending aft of the sternpost of a ship | - |
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fantan | (noun) a Chinese gambling game; a random number of counters are placed under a bowl and you gamble on how many will be left (0, 1, 2, or 3 modulo 4) | Synonyms: fan tan |
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(noun) a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards | Synonyms: parliament, sevens |
fantasia | (noun) a musical composition of a free form usually incorporating several familiar themes | - |
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fantasist | (noun) a creator of fantasies | - |
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fantasm | (noun) something existing in perception only | Synonyms: apparition, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow |
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(noun) a ghostly appearing figure | Synonyms: apparition, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, specter, spectre |
fantast | (noun) someone who predicts the future | Synonyms: futurist |
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fantasticalness | (noun) The state or condition of pertaining to fantasy; of being fanciful or whimsical. | - |
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fantasy | (noun) imagination unrestricted by reality | Synonyms: phantasy |
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(noun) something many people believe that is false | Synonyms: fancy, illusion, phantasy |
(noun) fiction with a large amount of imagination in it | Synonyms: phantasy |
fantods | (noun) an ill-defined state of irritability and distress | - |
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fanweed | (noun) foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America | Synonyms: field pennycress, French weed, mithridate mustard, penny grass, stinkweed, Thlaspi arvense |
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fanwort | (noun) common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers | Synonyms: Cabomba caroliniana, water-shield |
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